Slow Dance: A Novel [Paperback]

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK

AN INSTANTNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER

This special limited paperback features vibrant red sprayed edges.

From #1New York Timesbestselling author Rainbow Rowell comesSlow Dance—her smartest, funniest, mostpowerfulnovel yet.

“If you, like me, think thirty-somethings methodically working through their issues is very hot,Slow Danceis the book for you. The people in it feel like people you know or maybe even people you’ve been.Slow Danceis sexy, sweet, wise, and nostalgic—Jane Austen’sPersuasionfor our times.”

— Gabrielle Zevin,New York Timesbestselling author ofTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Shiloh Butler was supposed to get out of north Omaha.

She used to sit out on the front porch with her best friend, Cary, and plot their escape. Shiloh was going to be an actress – she had a scholarship to a good school – and Cary was laser-focused on the Navy. Sharp, stoic, golden-eyed Cary . . . thin as a stick of gum and poor as dirt. He was probably the most decent person Shiloh has ever known. She hasn’t spoken to him in fourteen years.

When Shiloh gets an invitation to a high school friend’s wedding, Cary is the first and only thing on her mind.

She desperately wants to see him again, but she doesn’t know if she can bear being seenbyhim. What would Cary think of Shiloh at thirty-three? A divorced mom living in the same house she grew up in. Someone who works behind a desk, not onstage.

Would Cary evenwantto see Shiloh after all this time? Aftereverything?

The answer, it turns out, is yes.

In her triumphant return to adult fiction, Rainbow Rowell has written a love story so honest and human – socathartic– you’ll feel it in your bones.Slow Danceisl!